When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
Ulrike Meinhof
Andreas Baader
Gudrun Ensslin
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
Holger Meins
Jan Karl Raspe
Peter-Jürgen Boock
Horst Mahler
Petra Schelm
Horst Herold
Herolds Assistent
Christian Klar
Rudi Dutschke
Peter Homann
Susanne Albrecht
Josef Bachmann
Klaus Rainer Röhl
Astrid Proll
Ingrid Schubert
Stefan Aust
Hanne
Richter Dr. Prinzing
Petra 'Peggy' Schoenau
Helmut Ensslin
Jürgen Ponto
Siegfried Buback
Hanns Martin Schleyer
Irmgard Möller
Sieglinde Hofmann
Willy Peter Stoll
Thorwald 'Thorsten' Proll
Manfred Grashof
Hanna Krabbe
Siegfried Hausner
Gerhard Müller
Jochen
Benno Ohnsorg
Telefonistin Springer Verlag
Frau Buddenberg
Günter von Drenkmann
Günther Scheicher
Ägyptischer Fahrer
Anwalt Hagemann
Pranke
Anstaltsleiter Stammheim
Frau Ponto
Gruppenmitglied Jens
Telefonistin
Polizist
Simone - Stefan Austs girlfriend (uncredited)
Danae Coulmas (uncredited)
Peter's girlfriend (uncredited)